Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. History and Theory

   1. Bioethics as an Interdisciplinary Enterprise: Where Does Ethics Fit in the Mosaic of Disciplines?

      • Edmund D. Pellegrino

      Pages 1-23

   2. Humanities in the Service of Medicine: Three Models

      • K. Danner Clouser

      Pages 25-39

   3. The Primacy of Practice: Medicine and Postmodernism

      • Stephen Toulmin

      Pages 41-53

   4. What can the Epistemologists Learn from the Endocrinologists? Or is the Philosophy of Medicine Based on a Mistake?

      • Marx W. Wartofsky

      Pages 55-68

   5. Praxis as a Keystone for the Philosophy and Professional Ethics of Medicine: The Need for an Arch-Support: Commentary on Toulmin and Wartofsky

      • Edmund D. Pellegrino

      Pages 69-84

   6. Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine Reconsidered

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

      Pages 85-103

   7. Form Synthesis and System to Morals and Procedure: The Development of Philosophy of Medicine

      • Henk Ten Have

      Pages 105-123

   8. The Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics: Commentary on Ten Have and Engelhardt

      • Stuart F. Spicker

      Pages 125-133

3. Practice and Theory

   1. Bioethics in Social Context

      • Larry R. Churchill

      Pages 137-151

   2. The Week of November Seventh: Bioethics as a Practice

      • Judith Andre

      Pages 153-172

   3. Toward A Humanist Bioethics: Commentary on Churchill and Andre

      • Thomas R. Cole

      Pages 173-179

   4. Medical Ethics as Reflective Practice

      • Ronald A. Carson

      Pages 181-191

   5. From Principles to Reflective Practice or Narrative Ethics? Commentary on Carson

      • Anne Hudson Jones

      Pages 193-195

   6. Hedgehogs and Hermaphrodites: Toward a More Anthropological Bioethics

      • Carl Elliott

      Pages 197-211

   7. An Anthropological Bioethics: Hermeneutical or Critical? Commentary on Elliott

      • Gerald P. Mckenny

      Pages 213-220

   8. Medicine’s Challenge to Relativism: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation

      • Loretta M. Kopelman

      Pages 221-237

   9. “We be of One Blood, You and I”: Commentary on Kopelman

      • Grant Gillett

      Pages 239-245

   10. Must Patients Suffer?

       • Courtney S. Campbell

       Pages 247-263

   11. Doctors and Their Suffering Patients: Commentary on Campbell

       • David Barnard

       Pages 265-272

Papers presented at a symposium on philosophy and medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1974 were published in the inaugural volume of this series. To help celebrate more than 20 years of extraordinary success with the series, another symposium was convened in Galveston in 1995. The convenors asked the participants these questions: In what ways and to what ends have academic humanists and medical scientists and practitioners become serious conversation partners in recent years? How have their dialogues been shaped by prevailing social views, political philosophies, academic habits, professional mores, and public pressures? What have been the key concepts and questions of these dialogues? Have the dialogues made any appreciable intellectual or social difference? Have they improved the care of the sick? Authors respond from a variety of theoretical perspectives in the humanities. They also articulate conceptions of philosophy of medicine and bioethics from various practice experiences, and bring critical attention to aspects of the contemporary health policy.

• Ethics
• Ethics of medicine
• Medical Ethics
• bioethics
• health
• morality

• Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA

  Ronald A. Carson, Chester R. Burns

Policies and ethics